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U.S.S. Oregon, breech of 13-inch guns in after turret

U.S.S. Oregon, breech of 13-inch guns in after turret

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U.S.S. New York, breech of 8 inch gun and crew

U.S.S. New York, breech of 8 inch gun and crew

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[U.S.S. New York, breech of eight inch gun]

[U.S.S. New York, breech of eight inch gun]

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Military subjects. Breech of 12" gun

Military subjects. Breech of 12" gun

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No margin for error here. Micrometer readings are taken to make sure that every part fits perfectly in the guns being manufactured for war purposes. This worker is inspecting a breech ring for medium-caliber guns in a large eastern arsenal

No margin for error here. Micrometer readings are taken to make sure t...

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Dangerous spot. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. Dr. L.H. Adams, Director of the Geological Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, is standing in what might be a dangerous position should the little steel drum in the cabinet [next to] him explode. In this apparatus the scientists study the behavior and properties of artificial rock under tremendous pressure, a pressure greater than that generated in the breech of the cannon. From these studies is learned something of the behavior of rocks at great depths, 12/18/37

Dangerous spot. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. Dr. L.H. Adams, Director of...

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Fort Benning. Machine gunners, armored forces. Our armored forces hit hard and fast. This corporal at the breech end of .30 caliber Browning works from one of the Army's new halftrac scout cars

Fort Benning. Machine gunners, armored forces. Our armored forces hit ...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thirty-seven-millimeter gun, this young worker is one of the millions of Americans hard at work behind the men behind the guns. Site of these operations is a factory which formerly made locks and safes, before its conversion to production of guns and gun mounts. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thir...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A grinding operation on the breech of a machine gun for the Air Corps. The adaptability of grinding machines to this work helped speed the conversion of the auto factory which is now making these guns. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A grinding operation on the...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Double-barreled breech loader - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Double-barreled breech loader - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1749.

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. BORING BREECH OF 14 INCH GUN

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. BORING BREECH OF 14 INCH GUN

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Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech of a sixteen-inch at Fort Story, Virginia

Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech of a sixteen-inch at Fort...

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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap Canal. (Columbiad gun with Brooke ? Reinforced Breech by ?)

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James R...

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Breech of 8 inch gun and crew - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Breech of 8 inch gun and crew - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-auto mechanic pictured at work in ex-lock factory. Merril Darr, twenty-five, works on breech ring for a thirty-seven-millimeter gun. These guns and thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts are now produced in a plant which formerly manufactured items for civilian use. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-auto mechanic pictured at work i...

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NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. BORING BREECH OF 14 INCH GUN

NAVY YARD, U.S., WASHINGTON. BORING BREECH OF 14 INCH GUN

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Breech brackets for machine guns receive a final check in the Passaic, New Jersey machine shop of the Howe Machinery Company before they are packed for shipment to the final assembly point. In addition to getting heavy production through its own shop, this concern is also farming out considerable work through a home workshop pool it organized

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Breech brackets for machin...

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The man behind the gun. Worker in an eastern arsenal finishing up the breech end of a tube of a medium-caliber gun for the war program

The man behind the gun. Worker in an eastern arsenal finishing up the ...

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Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech block of the giant howitzer into place. The screw threads help the block to withstand millions of foot pounds of pressure caused by the exploding charge

Fort Story coast defense. A tough job for soldiers: shoving the breech...

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[Corporal Elias Warner or Warnear of Company K, 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment with 1852 Slant Breech Sharps carbine and cavalry saber]

[Corporal Elias Warner or Warnear of Company K, 3rd New York Cavalry R...

Photo shows identified soldier. Case: Berg, no. 2-7. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Liljenquist... More

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Darling. Columbiad gun with Brooke reinforced breech

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia (vicinity). Fort Darling. Colum...

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Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap Canal. (Navy broadside 42-pdr. with reinforced breech)

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James R...

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U.S.S. Oregon, breech of 6-inch gun and crew

U.S.S. Oregon, breech of 6-inch gun and crew

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A former automotive worker in a converted auto plant sights through the precision-made breech of a machine gun for the Air Corps. One of thousands of examples of the way American enterprise threw its technical skill and its tremendous mass production facilities behind the war production drive. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A former automotive worker ...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech on one of Fort Story's sixteen-inch howitzers

Fort Story coast defense. Closing the breech on one of Fort Story's si...

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U.S.S. Vesuvius, breech of dynamite guns

U.S.S. Vesuvius, breech of dynamite guns

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-truck driver at work in ex-lock factory. Clyde Dahlberner is one of Uncle Sam's millions working for victory behind the men behind the guns. He's doing bench work on a breech ring for a thirty-seven-millimeter gun, present product of this factory. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-truck driver at work in ex-lock ...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed forces are assembled in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks. These are breech ring mounts for the guns. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed...

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Fort Story coast defense. Projectile being loaded into an interrupted-screw type breech at Fort Story, Virginia. With a quarter turn, this breech gives the same sealing effect as twelve turns on a regualr screw

Fort Story coast defense. Projectile being loaded into an interrupted-...

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Business district. Bench workers finishing a breech housing for a medium caliber gun in a large eastern arsenal. This is a section of the business part of one of the guns being turned out for the war production program

Business district. Bench workers finishing a breech housing for a medi...

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Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)
[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company B hat, with Hall breech loading carbine rifle, Colt revolver, and cavalry sword]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company B hat, with Hall br...

Case: Leather; geometric design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from:Tommy Haas, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljunion

Military subjects. In breech of 12" gun

Military subjects. In breech of 12" gun

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As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in each howitzer to check the breech mechanism. The firing is pictured. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being manufactured at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant, largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

As a test, three rounds of primers in empty shell cases are fired in e...

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Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech...

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Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)
Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)
Fort Story coast defense. Projectile being loaded into an interrupted-screw type breech at Fort Story, Virginia. With a quarter turn, this breech gives the same sealing effect as twelve turns on a regualr screw

Fort Story coast defense. Projectile being loaded into an interrupted-...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Major General Charles T. Harris, Jr., explaining the workings of the breech in a sixteen-inch gun to Congressman Andrew J. May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Mr. May saw the huge gun fired, then toured the proving ground, and examined mobile artillery, small arms, and other ordnance material

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Major General Charles T. Harris, Jr...

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Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)
Fort Story coast defense. A husky soldier at Fort Story, Virginia hoists a round to the breech of a coast defense gun

Fort Story coast defense. A husky soldier at Fort Story, Virginia hois...

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Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)
U.S.S. New York, breech of 8 inch gun and crew

U.S.S. New York, breech of 8 inch gun and crew

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Oversized shootin' iron. Machining a breech block seat for a mighty gun being rushed for completion in an eastern arsenal

Oversized shootin' iron. Machining a breech block seat for a mighty gu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified cavalry soldier in Confederate uniform with slant breech sharps carbine, two knives, and two revolvers]

[Unidentified cavalry soldier in Confederate uniform with slant breech...

Case: Berg, no. 3-157. Possibly a Border Ruffian from Missouri or Kansas. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congr... More

Norman Eastman to Abraham Lincoln, June 1862  (Breech loading cannon)